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ok so Im having PROBLEM with my G1 that's never happened to me before!!
i basically tried to flash drizzy's motorola cliq beta beta and so I wiped ext3, wiped, and did repair ext. when I flash ANY rom now i keep getting an error similar to this:
E: can't chown/mod /system/bin
no such file or directory
failure at line 65
set_perm_recursive 0 2000 0755 0 6755 SYSTEM:xbin
installation aborted.
when i try flashing another rom it'll say the something along the same lines exept it says error on line 42. so basically I cannot flash any rom right now... can anyone knowledgeable plz tell me whats goin on nd how to fix!
jroid said:
ok so Im having PROBLEM with my G1 that's never happened to me before!!
i basically tried to flash drizzy's motorola cliq beta beta and so I wiped ext3, wiped, and did repair ext. when I flash ANY rom now i keep getting an error similar to this:
E: can't chown/mod /system/bin
no such file or directory
failure at line 65
set_perm_recursive 0 2000 0755 0 6755 SYSTEM:xbin
installation aborted.
when i try flashing another rom it'll say the something along the same lines exept it says error on line 42. so basically I cannot flash any rom right now... can anyone knowledgeable plz tell me whats goin on nd how to fix!
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Use gparted and reformat your ext partition that will fix it
Ok not a dumb question. Do you have your g1 connected to your computer??
osokrayzay said:
Ok not a dumb question. Do you have your g1 connected to your computer??
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well right now I do to charge the battery from all these flashes. but will repartition to see if it fixes it thnx
If you are flashing with it plugged to computer, It will give you that error.
Here is a quick video, nothing special
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oAyQdH-6EM
jroid said:
ok so Im having PROBLEM with my G1 that's never happened to me before!!
i basically tried to flash drizzy's motorola cliq beta beta and so I wiped ext3, wiped, and did repair ext. when I flash ANY rom now i keep getting an error similar to this:
E: can't chown/mod /system/bin
no such file or directory
failure at line 65
set_perm_recursive 0 2000 0755 0 6755 SYSTEM:xbin
installation aborted.
when i try flashing another rom it'll say the something along the same lines exept it says error on line 42. so basically I cannot flash any rom right now... can anyone knowledgeable plz tell me whats goin on nd how to fix!
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another thing you can do if the wipe wont work even after re-partitioning the sdcard is to re update.zip haykuro spl looked like a spl issue i ran into before. just a thought!
Jester....
jesterdroid said:
another thing you can do if the wipe wont work even after re-partitioning the sdcard is to re update.zip haykuro spl looked like a spl issue i ran into before. just a thought!
Jester....
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ok i will try that, i reformatted my whole sdcard and its still giving me the same error. dam what did i do?? ive done the same procedure over a 1000+ times nd never had this issue flashing. now i try flashing this cliq rom and it magically appears. dam man
That's good news thats its working. To me, I left it connected to the comp, so i coudlnt find the file and it gave me that error, but all is well. Good
jroid said:
ok i will try that, i reformatted my whole sdcard and its still giving me the same error. dam what did i do?? ive done the same procedure over a 1000+ times nd never had this issue flashing. now i try flashing this cliq rom and it magically appears. dam man
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should i re-flash the spl?? I have the haykuro spl already.. and btw, i never had my g1 plugged into the comp. while flashing.. still have this error
jroid said:
ok i will try that, i reformatted my whole sdcard and its still giving me the same error. dam what did i do?? ive done the same procedure over a 1000+ times nd never had this issue flashing. now i try flashing this cliq rom and it magically appears. dam man
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well at the absolute worst you will just have to re-root again.. time consuming but its not gonna kill your phone.
one more thing i just thought about if SPL dont fix it.. the other thing i did was reinstall the cyanogen recovery... one of the 2 will work hopefully.. i am leaning more toward the SPL tho good luck and let me know what happens..
Jester
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That's good news thats its working. To me, I left it connected to the comp, so i coudlnt find the file and it gave me that error, but all is well. Good
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na its not working lol i meant that the issue just magically appeared..
ok re-flashed spl and still have the error. dam what else can I do?? i ran out of ideas.. it sayin /system/xbin doesn't exist.. i guess
try unrooting your G1 by flashing the Dream.nbh, im sure you can find it in the forums. then root your G1 again. oh and also try out AMON_RA's recovery images, you can easily repartition your sdcard with it.
Good luck man, hope this works
*EDIT: actually i think i didnt mention everything you needed to do to unroot.
this website has links to the files you need and great instructions on how to unroot.
http://theunlockr.com/2009/07/05/how-to-unroot-your-t-mobile-g1/
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try unrooting your G1 by flashing the Dream.nbh, im sure you can find it in the forums. then root your G1 again. oh and also try out AMON_RA's recovery images, you can easily repartition your sdcard with it.
Good luck man, hope this works
*EDIT: actually i think i didnt mention everything you needed to do to unroot.
this website has links to the files you need and great instructions on how to unroot.
http://theunlockr.com/2009/07/05/how-to-unroot-your-t-mobile-g1/
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yea i was thinkin of doin this awile bak.. i think this has to do somethin with a problem i had yesterday flashing cyans latest rom. i flashed the htc recovery and rebooted; loosing my root. i re-rooted and nandroided back to 1.6.. so i have the .nbh nd recovery img. thnx i think this will do it
ok so i re-rooted, flashed cliq rom nd gave me the same error.. apparently someone else got the same error so Im not the only one. BUT I flashed akirah's 1.6 and it installed successfully.... hmm. startin to think there somethin iffy bout that update idk
jroid said:
ok so i re-rooted, flashed cliq rom nd gave me the same error.. apparently someone else got the same error so Im not the only one. BUT I flashed akirah's 1.6 and it installed successfully.... hmm. startin to think there somethin iffy bout that update idk
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did you remember to update back to haykuro's SPL? blur and drizzys rom all use it..
jroid said:
ok so i re-rooted, flashed cliq rom nd gave me the same error.. apparently someone else got the same error so Im not the only one. BUT I flashed akirah's 1.6 and it installed successfully.... hmm. startin to think there somethin iffy bout that update idk
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maybe its something wrong with his install script. anyways, flashing your system image from your safe nandroid restore from fastboot just before flashing the blur image should work
how about ..
you unzip your update.zip
hop in the meta-inf folder open up google then anroid
then update-script
open that with textpad
scroll down to the part where it says
CHOWN 1,0,1,0,5,*some other numbers* System:xbin
delete it
save
rezip and then resign and flash
theres even a resigning.exe floating around somewhere all you gotta do is put "update.zip" in the same folder as the exe and it signs for you
wow 2 great Ideas!! will try and return thannks!
ok guys I finally got it!!! created my moto account and signing in!!
ok so I flashed danger spl and it worked!! thank guys for your support on this issue i really appreciiate it
I have been looking over these forums ever since i got the hero and now that the custom roms are out ive been trying to root my phone and switch but im having problems!
1. Ive tried the flash rec method to the T and when i turn of my phone and hit recovery i get a..... ! icon next to a phone on my screen and then it reverts back to the previous state. Ive tried it 5 times and given up that rout!
2. Since that way didnt work i tried the SDK way but now for some reason i cannot install the adb driver for my pc so im stuck.
Im an newb when it comes to this stuff so any help or workaround is appreciated!
edit: im running win 7
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I have been looking over these forums ever since i got the hero and now that the custom roms are out ive been trying to root my phone and switch but im having problems!
1. Ive tried the flash rec method to the T and when i turn of my phone and hit recovery i get a..... ! icon next to a phone on my screen and then it reverts back to the previous state. Ive tried it 5 times and given up that rout!
2. Since that way didnt work i tried the SDK way but now for some reason i cannot install the adb driver for my pc so im stuck.
Im an newb when it comes to this stuff so any help or workaround is appreciated!
edit: im running win 7
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ok, in the flashrec method, you most likely didnt name tell it to find the right file.. I suggest trying it again, and when you get to the backup recovery image, go to you sd card and copy that recovery-backup.img file to your desktop. Then take the Amon Ra recovery image file and rename it to recovery-backup.img and hit restore backup image. That should fix your problem.
hold on a sec, tryin that now!
thank you, i just got past that step, following your youtube vid now, ill pm you if i run into any more problems, and thank you again! I was getting sooo frustrated with that!!!!!!
lv2bll said:
thank you, i just got past that step, following your youtube vid now, ill pm you if i run into any more problems, and thank you again! I was getting sooo frustrated with that!!!!!!
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ok, I hope everything turns out well
Ive been reading around for about 2 weeks and so today I tried to root my hero. I ried frist to go the long way useing the android-sdk-windows route but it didnt work so I then went for the z4 root method as seen in a earlyer post. I installed the app. I clicked on root in my phone and it did its thing I guess? It didnt ask me to do a temp install or a perm install. It finally rebooted and all my apps were still on there from android market and it was running horribly slow so did a factory reset. I can see superuser app. I downloaded rom manager and every time I go to click install rom from sd card it says you must install clockworkmod recovery fist and so forth. I am just getting really lost in this hole process. All I wana do is get rid of the damn stock apps... make my hero run faster and if a rom is pretty much a custom background and stuff then install that. At this point I dont even know if the damn thing is rooted or not and I havent been able to find a clear answer on how to root ANYWHERE on any site that will work. It seems 2 different methods ive tried both have failed. If anyone can help that would be great.
I'm not a dev but i had a hard time my first time too. So did you look at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=674833. and have you tried to see if you can adb in cmd on your computer? If so and nothing happened and your phone in working like crap now then find the news 2.1 ruu use that then start over. I used this tread (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=583291). Hope this helped and good luck!!
The lag u experienced is a known issue when u reboot simply run z4root again and it should fix it and clockworkmod recovery is the custom recovery u need to install in order to use a Rom and u flash it through Rom manager and if u just want to remove system apps try root explorer from the market its 4$ but well worth it
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hitman13429 said:
Ive been reading around for about 2 weeks and so today I tried to root my hero. I ried frist to go the long way useing the android-sdk-windows route but it didnt work so I then went for the z4 root method as seen in a earlyer post. I installed the app. I clicked on root in my phone and it did its thing I guess? It didnt ask me to do a temp install or a perm install. It finally rebooted and all my apps were still on there from android market and it was running horribly slow so did a factory reset. I can see superuser app. I downloaded rom manager and every time I go to click install rom from sd card it says you must install clockworkmod recovery fist and so forth. I am just getting really lost in this hole process. All I wana do is get rid of the damn stock apps... make my hero run faster and if a rom is pretty much a custom background and stuff then install that. At this point I dont even know if the damn thing is rooted or not and I havent been able to find a clear answer on how to root ANYWHERE on any site that will work. It seems 2 different methods ive tried both have failed. If anyone can help that would be great.
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The laginess is normal after z4root...tap on Flash ClockworkMod Recovery, install it (It takes a bit since it has to download it first). Note that if it doesnt do anything when u press it, uninstall it, reboot your phone and download it again from the Market, that was the only issue i had, everything else went by smoothly.
Just follow what I did on here
(http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=875351) and feel free to keep asking questions, i am new to this also. Looking back, its a process that should take longer than 30 minutes.
I put the step by step of the process on the first post as an edit.
I have done many searches trying to find the answer but I haven't found an answer that I thought explained it. Some people have said that the file downloaded incorrectly and I should just re-download the ROM again. I have flashed many ROMs such as Cog, Perception, Phoenix, FF, SN and for every one of my flashes I have gotten one of these errors at least once.
I have flashed back to stock, master cleared, fixed permissions, flashed over ROMs without doing those steps and I still get at least one of these:
E: Can't symlink /system/bin/cat
E: Failure a lin 7:
symlink toolbox SYSTEM:bin/cat
installation aborted
E: Can't chown/mod /system/xbin/su
(no such file or directory)
E: Failure at line 71:
set_perm 0 0 04755 SYSTEM:xbin/su
Installation aborted
I have started putting 3 to 4 .zip files on my phone before I try to flash to save me from having to flash back to stock. I would just like to know if there was any way to do something about this on my end so my flashing time doesn't take an hour or more instead of a few minutes.
Quick question you are using cwm to flash and not stock recovery
[ROM] Precision 3.5 [Kernel] Suckerpunch #51
I am using cwm
Wow dude i have the SAME exactly problem and no one can help me! This all started cause i tried the cog4 rom and my phone has been ****ed ever since! Wont install any roms, all symlink errors, and now i can't even get it to restore a backup. It will successfully restore but upon reboot it just goes back to stock recovery UGH. I just want my phone back! And yes i am doing odin and master clear EVERY SINGLE TIME. Have downloaded each rom file over 10 times each. This is killing me!
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Wow dude i have the SAME exactly problem and no one can help me! This all started cause i tried the cog4 rom and my phone has been ****ed ever since! Wont install any roms, all symlink errors, and now i can't even get it to restore a backup. It will successfully restore but upon reboot it just goes back to stock recovery UGH. I just want my phone back! And yes i am doing odin and master clear EVERY SINGLE TIME. Have downloaded each rom file over 10 times each. This is killing me!
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I actually just responded to the thread you started before I noticed that you replied to mine. I just suggested that you download some more files but it seems like you have done that already.
If someone with knowledge would just PLEASE read this they can fix this for us. I found someone with the same problem, just different phone. They fixed it! We just need someone with the know-how to convert the directions into how you would do the same things on our phones...
http://forum.samdroid.net/f38/cannot-install-any-rom-recovery-4091/
PLEASE PLEASE GUYS HELP
You will need to flash back to stock. Odin 1-Click should do the trick, however you should Master Clear BEFORE you start flashing the stock ROM. The idea is to wipe the card of any inconsistencies in file system structure; sometimes parts can still be in Ext4 (even after 'unlagfixing') when other partitions are back to rfs.
I'd try that. I had a devil of a time with the same issue and after a lot of troubleshooting this worked for me.
Good luck!
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You will need to flash back to stock. Odin 1-Click should do the trick, however you should Master Clear BEFORE you start flashing the stock ROM. The idea is to wipe the card of any inconsistencies in file system structure; sometimes parts can still be in Ext4 (even after 'unlagfixing') when other partitions are back to rfs.
I'd try that. I had a devil of a time with the same issue and after a lot of troubleshooting this worked for me.
Good luck!
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I have flashed back to stock with one click odin, 3 button odin, and every odin ever made(exaggerating) probably 40-50 times today . I have master cleared before flashing, after flashing. I have re-partitioned. I have fixed permissions. I have done all of the above in every order imaginable.
I have also tried to install over 5 different roms. This all started whenever i flashed the cog4 that was ORIGINALLY posted yseterday. It had a line 15 error and apparently a wrong kernel. Ever since my phone has never been the same. It must have really ****ed something up.
After reading all night...this is NOT exclusive to the captivate. This has happened to just about every android phone out there. And every topic in existence ends up dying and no one ever gives a solution. Most point to the system partition being full, and it messing up and thats why it's not able to symlink. Others say apps2sd being built in a rom can do that. ONE guy did the rm wipe system thing through adb and got it to work. Please guys HELP PLEASE. My phone is absolutely useless right now being able to run nothing but stock. PLEASE.
I am trying to do a rm -rf /system in an root adb shell in recovery. It always says device is busy. Any ideas!?
Sorry, wrong thread. Ignore me.
Dam thought we were finally getting some help!
Are you using some kind of download accellerator or manager?
Sent from my HTC Vision
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Are you using some kind of download accellerator or manager?
Sent from my HTC Vision
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No? I'm not getting where your going with this....
BTW XDA i'm NOT gonna let this go till i get some answers my phone is totally useless right now. I either accept that i just wasted hundreds of dollars on a phone OR that i may annoy some of the community to get them to pay attention. Obviously i'm gonna go with no. 2.
xsteven77x said:
No? I'm not getting where your going with this....
BTW XDA i'm NOT gonna let this go till i get some answers my phone is totally useless right now. I either accept that i just wasted hundreds of dollars on a phone OR that i may annoy some of the community to get them to pay attention. Obviously i'm gonna go with no. 2.
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FOR THE LOVE OF GOD SOMEONE PLEASE. i have scoured the entire internet...if someone here can't help then my phone is garbage.
Yep, I broked it.
So, wanna hear a fun story?
I got a free Hero, and tried to root it. First thing I tried was z4root. It failed. Then I tried RegawMod. Fail. Perhaps it didn't help that I had the latest stock version of the Hero, 2.32.651.x
So, then, me being a wise guy, decided that I'd just try doing it myself through ADB. I tried to follow CyanogenMod adb rooting instructions HERE. I kept getting stuck at step 5:
chmod 755 /data/local/tmp/rageagainstthecage-arm5.bin
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It kept saying something about how it couldn't chmod "/data/local/tmp/rageagainstthecage-arm5.bin" because it wasn't a directory. Well, duh, this I know...but I couldn't figure out how to make adb understand that.
Well of course, because I couldn't chmod rageagainstthecage, I couldn't move on to the next step, actually running ratc:
/data/local/tmp/rageagainstthecage-arm5.bin
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Now, this is where the fun really begins. I rebooted the Hero, just to see if that would help, and then I was going to try again. Trouble is, the phone wouldn't boot. Kept getting stuck on an endless boot on the HTC screen. So, I went into clockworkmod, wiped everything (except boot), and then restored the nandroid backup I had made before I started this whole process. Still no dice. Still stuck at an endless HTC boot screen. I tried a hard reset on the fastboot menu just for ****s and giggles...but still nothing doing. I also tried running the RUU app on my computer to install an older version of the stock ROM, but RUU would not recognize my device (even though HTC sync and ALL of the drivers are installed, and I had it mounted to the computer in clockworkmod).
So...I guess my question is - does anyone have any clue how to fix this? I still want to root the damn thing, but right now I'd be happy just to get the stock rom back up and running. I know if I could find a stock ROM I could probably flash it through clockworkmod...alas, the only one I found turned out to be a corrupt zip file.
Any help is appreciated. Thanks!
u do realize if u have clockwork mod u are rooted right...
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u do realize if u have clockwork mod u are rooted right...
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I'm not sure how, as all three methods I tried to root failed. I even tested it with terminal emulator, got all $, no #. Of course, that was back when I could actually get to Terminal Emulator.
Bling_Diggity said:
I'm not sure how, as all three methods I tried to root failed. I even tested it with terminal emulator, got all $, no #. Of course, that was back when I could actually get to Terminal Emulator.
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look here for the RUU.zip made by tehdarkknight, get it. Then run in with the instructions from jasonmaloneys thread about fastboot without s-off. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1063843
EDIT: that *should" unroot you back to stock. Then follow the REAL rooting thread (adb method) by regaw leinad.
PLEASE DISREGARD this thread. I'm an idiot...apparently the damn thing was rooted before I got it...which explains why my attempts to root it weren't working. Flashed CM7 in clockworkmod and it booted up with no problems.
Bling_Diggity said:
PLEASE DISREGARD this thread. I'm an idiot...apparently the damn thing was rooted before I got it...which explains why my attempts to root it weren't working. Flashed CM7 in clockworkmod and it booted up with no problems.
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Yeah, that's what bierce22 was saying - if you already had clockworkmod, you were already rooted. But it was a good learning experience for you, right?
no one ever listens to me around here lmao.
Lmao thats hilarious. I fail. Bierce FTW.
sent from a series of tubes.
Bling_Diggity said:
Yep, I broked it.
So, wanna hear a fun story?
I got a free Hero, and tried to root it. First thing I tried was z4root. It failed. Then I tried RegawMod. Fail. Perhaps it didn't help that I had the latest stock version of the Hero, 2.32.651.x
So, then, me being a wise guy, decided that I'd just try doing it myself through ADB. I tried to follow CyanogenMod adb rooting instructions HERE. I kept getting stuck at step 5:
It kept saying something about how it couldn't chmod "/data/local/tmp/rageagainstthecage-arm5.bin" because it wasn't a directory. Well, duh, this I know...but I couldn't figure out how to make adb understand that.
Well of course, because I couldn't chmod rageagainstthecage, I couldn't move on to the next step, actually running ratc:
Now, this is where the fun really begins. I rebooted the Hero, just to see if that would help, and then I was going to try again. Trouble is, the phone wouldn't boot. Kept getting stuck on an endless boot on the HTC screen. So, I went into clockworkmod, wiped everything (except boot), and then restored the nandroid backup I had made before I started this whole process. Still no dice. Still stuck at an endless HTC boot screen. I tried a hard reset on the fastboot menu just for ****s and giggles...but still nothing doing. I also tried running the RUU app on my computer to install an older version of the stock ROM, but RUU would not recognize my device (even though HTC sync and ALL of the drivers are installed, and I had it mounted to the computer in clockworkmod).
So...I guess my question is - does anyone have any clue how to fix this? I still want to root the damn thing, but right now I'd be happy just to get the stock rom back up and running. I know if I could find a stock ROM I could probably flash it through clockworkmod...alas, the only one I found turned out to be a corrupt zip file.
Any help is appreciated. Thanks!
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My story is similar. Boot into hboot stay in fastboot mode and DO NOT VOL DOWN. once youve booted into hboot, plug the hero In and get the ruu started up. Once you've started the ruu, if you get the connection error message, click the action button (trackball) on 'fastboot usb mode' and for some reason, the ruu seemed to connect to it then. Hope it works out for ya.
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Also, when rooting with z4, do a temporary first then after a successful temporary root, hit the permanent button. That's done the trick for me in countless seemingly hopeless situations.
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